The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

Remember back in October, when Adam Sandler announced that he'd signed a four-movie deal (one for each of the apocalypse's horsemen) with Netflix because the streaming service's name "“rhymes with wet chicks?” Well, the rough beast's hour has come round at last.

With Judge Gloppy presiding.

Back in January of 2012, it was announced that Adam Sandler would produce and star in a Candyland movie from Columbia Pictures and Hasbro. Naturally we all took this to be a sign of the impending apocalypse and calmly awaited out fates. Luckily the world didn't end—and even better, the movie might be in trouble now if the original copyright owners of the popular board game have anything to say about it.

Of Course!

There were worse movies to come out this year, to be sure. But, like the Oscars they were created to mock, the Razzie Awards is just a yearly bit of fluff that picks their winners (or "winners") based on mostly meaningless criteria. So let's just sit back and have fun with it, yeah?
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Thank You?

Good morning, readers! Allow us to present a story that will leave you either scratching your heads or throwing a heavy object at the wall: Columbia Pictures and Hasbro have announced that the Candyland movie they've been working on (the one based on the board game -- that has been described as "an operatic, ‘King Lear’-like civil war in a kingdom that just happened to be made completely out of candy" -- has found a production partner in Happy Madison Productions. That would be Adam Sandler's production company. And if you're wondering if it's going to star Adam Sandler ... then you have wondered correctly. Wow. What to do about all these mixed feelings I'm having.
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so long and thanks for all the fish

Frances Bay, whose career spanned decades and didn't even start until she was in her 50s, passed away this past Thursday at the age of 92. Born in 1919 in Mannville, Alberta, Canada, she scored her first film in 1978 -- Foul Play -- and went on to appear in several popular TV shows and films including Happy Days, Seinfeld, and Happy Gilmore, in which she was memorably threatened by a mustachioed Ben Stiller.
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Everyone's favorite Soul Reapin' manga Bleach could be making its way to the silver screen. THR's Heat Vision blog reports that Warner Bros. is currently in the process of acquiring the rights to the epically long manga, and that Peter Segal (yes, the guy who directed Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore rom-com 50 First Dates) would be producing the movie, in collaboration with his partner Michael Ewing and with Bleach's English-language publisher Viz Media.
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